This is an analysis of the poem Fireflies that begins with:
My fancies are fireflies, —
Specks of living light...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc ada edf agh gai baf dabi dj agkl mh ab dh bfn ead dbb obib pdfe lboq dnf brb saal ebla ei td dgi oab hs fh nb bd h oto eaa dXdX ha a hj f Xfh ta nio Xa afg odf dm sfo br ib ae djfh qn aba hi hb bff do fi ebh mf ej on aef fsf fXrb bdb effo bf hif jd bb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,4,2,4,2,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,4,3,3,4,4,2,2,3,3,2,2,2,2,1,3,3,4,2,1,2,1,3,2,3,2,3,3,2,3,2,2,2,4,2,3,2,2,3,2,2,3,2,2,2,3,3,4,3,4,2,3,2,2,2,3,2,2,3,3,3,2,2,3,2,4,2,2,3,2,3,2,2,2,2,2,3,4,2,2,2,4,2,4,2,2,2,3,2,3,2,2,2,3,2,3,2,4,2,3,4,2,3,2,2,2,3,2,2,3,2,3
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101 10101 100001 0101110 111010101 100110101 001011001 1111010 101101 0110010010 1111010010 110101 110010110 10001001 110001101 11111 11010111 11110001111 11011 1101 110111 00111 0101111110 11101 1111111010 10001010 01100110110011 1101011 111111011 111101010 111010 110101001001 11001110011010 111110100 1111001 000010 1111 10101 110111010 1001101 100010 1001 110010010011 001010010 101101001 11001 10101 1111111 101001 1011010101001 1010010 001010101 001011 0011011 0101011 0010111 1011010 100101 101100101 101001 10101010 101110100 0101110 11111 1100101 10010111001 001110 100100101 111101 111001011 0101001001 1111111 01011110100 010011010 101100 011101101 101010 11100100 100100010010 01101001000101 10001010100 01100010010 10010011 1111011010010 11101100111 1111001 11100100101 110101001001 0111101 01001001 101000100 110011 0101101001 101001111 01100010 101101 10101010 10111011 0100011010001 1100101010 010010010010010 0101100110 11010101 11001101101 111010 11101 0100011 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11100 01101111 0110100 11101010 1100111010101001 110111 101111001 1011110100110 010110100 111010001001010 10101011111 010011001 01110010101 11010 11010100 01010111 10011011101 11101 010011100 001001 0100111 10100100101 110001001 0101001 10101 011101 01101 01001110001 010101010 01111011101 0100101 001001 010100011 1100101110100 0101001110 011001011101 100010010 1010010 11111 1010100010 01001001001 0101101001 01001000100 101000100 11001100110 00100011 10011101 11101011 1101111101 00101110 10110100 01010010 10000100001001 000101 11001001 111010 101111110 001001 11101 10000101 0010101 101010100 1101 111101 001001 01001001 1110101 010101 00011 0101101 001000111010 101101111 101010101010 110100100010 10001010100 0110001 1011111001 0110101101 111010010001 10101101111 11010111 010110011101 0101110 01000100001001 111010010 100101001 100010 111001011001 11110011111 101011111101 1111000100110 11011100001 111001010 10011111 011110 111001101001 00011001 111101010 10011 1111 111001010011 1111 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1000111 00111 11101 1111110 10100101011 1111111111 111000100 111010111 1110010 0100010 11111001 11110 1110111101 110110 101111011 1111111011 1101111111000 11111 101 11001 0001001010 01010110 1110111 011001 100101 01010010101 010100111
- Amount of stanzas: 252
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 89
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 660
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, to, in, have, it, i, for, its, my, that, me, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, life's, he, its, to are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines night, ' are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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